The hopes of moderates working for Italian unification, after the failed revolutions of 1848, no longer centered on popular movements but rather on political moves by Piedmont-Sardinia.
Piedmont-Sardinia, also known as the Kingdom of Sardinia or the Kingdom of Savoy-Sardinia, was a state in Southern Europe from the early fourteenth until the mid-nineteenth century.
It was a member of the Council of Aragon. It initially consisted of the islands of Sardinia and Corsica, sovereignty over both of which was claimed by the Papacy that granted them as a fief, the kingdom of Sardinia and Corsica, to King James II of Aragon. James and his successors conquered the island of Sardinia beginning in 1324, and they established de facto their de jure authority. After the Sardinian-Aragonese war in 1420, the last competing claim to the island was bought out. Sardinia became a part of the burgeoning Spanish Empire after the union of the crowns of Aragon and Castile.
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